Amiri Baraka
Baraka has become most known for his strident social criticism, often writing in an incendiary style that has made it difficult for some audiences and critics to respond with objectivity to his works. Throughout his career his method in poetry, drama, fiction, and essays has been confrontational, calculated to shock and awaken audiences to the political concerns of black Americans. Baraka’s own political stance has changed several times, thus dividing his oeuvre into periods: as a member of the avant-garde during the 1950s, Baraka—writing as Leroi Jones—was associated with Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; in the ‘60s, he moved to Harlem and became a Black Nationalist; in the ‘70s, he was involved in third-world liberation movements and identified as a Marxist. More recently, Baraka has been accused of anti-Semitism for his poem “Somebody Blew up America,” written in response to the September 11 attacks. (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amiri-baraka)
Analysis
Nothing changes anymore everything seems the same. The feel of things, the sound, time things happen. He has become accustomed with the way the ground feels when he is on it. Every time he goes out to walk the dog even the feel of the ground isn't different. He has become use to it and nothing is changing. He looks in the sky to count the stars hoping for a new number but it is always the same count. Nothing happens there is never a new star only the same accustomed number. he even counts the hole where the stars should have been in the day time, it seems as if he is depressed.
Devices
"Talking to someone, and when i opened the door no one was there..."
this oxymoron makes the reader to ponder when the daughter is talking to someone, but nobody is actually there. This is making people wonder who she is talking to, or if she is talking at all making her mother seem crazy causing a dramatic effect.
this oxymoron makes the reader to ponder when the daughter is talking to someone, but nobody is actually there. This is making people wonder who she is talking to, or if she is talking at all making her mother seem crazy causing a dramatic effect.